Marina Zaleski with Montana Yoga Therapy

09/04/2025

Howdy friends❤️

If you are needing a little respite in your week I got a little something for ya.

Use discount code TGIT - Thank Goodness It's Thursday - and join us for the the Thursday night edition of Gentle & Restoring Yoga, 5:45 - 6:30 p.m. at The Ceretana on Missoula's Westside.

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Gentle & Restoring - Thursday Edition :) Single Class/Drop In Registration at 5:45 PM MDT on September 4 offered by Marina Zaleski | Yoga Essentials . Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:00 p.m., September 4 - December 18, 2024, 13 classes Location: The Ceretana Movement & Moving Arts Studio, 801 Sherwood St, Suite...

08/31/2025

On this National Grief Awareness Day, let’s honor grief in all its shades and flavors. Let’s connect with our awkwardness, our grace, and our compassion. 🌿

Grief comes in many flavors—sadness, numbness, anger, even relief. Sometimes a new loss stirs old ones, layering together as cumulative grief.
There are so many types of grief- the slide only lists a few. Take this as an opportunity to acknowledge the grief you experience without the value of great or small. It is true and valid regardless of some arbitrary value.
Yoga has supported me and allowed me to support others to meet grief by offering:
✨ Safe connection — being with self and others
✨ Co-regulation — grounding together through breath and presence
✨ Choice & titration — feeling grief in small, manageable ways, with space to linger and be

Over time, I’ve learned so much about grief and how we heal through Tamarack Grief Resource Center here in Missoula. They offer a truly compassionate, research-informed approach—counseling, grief camps and retreats, support groups, school programs, workshops, and more—supporting individuals, families, and communities as we navigate the many layers of loss.
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08/26/2025

Due to your requests a second night of Gentle & Restoring has been added.

A great class for both newer and experienced students. With full series registration you’ll receive a mini-intake and optional monthly check-ins among other perks.

Starting up September 4: Thursdays, 5:45 - 7 p.m. Active enough with the intention of relieving tension and helping you learn how to regulate your nervous system.

Gentle & Restoring - Thursday Edition :) at 5:45 PM MDT on September 4 offered by Marina Zaleski | Yoga Essentials . Thursdays, 5:45 - 7:00 p.m., September 4 - December 18, 2024, 13 classes Location: The Ceretana Movement & Moving Arts Studio, 801 Sherwood St, Suite H, Studio C, Missoula, MT Nourish...

08/13/2025

AN ONLINE, IMMERSIVE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO START YOUR OWN HERBAL APOTHECARY
Join herbalists Elaine Sheff and John Goicovich of Green Path Herb School for our online program to create your own home herbal apothecary. Learn how to make herbal medicines, including teas, decoctions, cold infusions, tinctures, salves, oils, glycerites, vinegars, honeys, elixirs, oxymels, and more! Although this is an online program, we will be making products together in most classes.

Learn how to make herbal medicines, including teas, decoctions, cold infusions, tinctures, salves, oils, glycerites, vinegars, honeys, elixirs, oxymels, and more! Find out more with the classes link in our bio. 🍵🌼☕️💗🫖

08/12/2025

We are now accepting applications for this year's Lived Experience Voices and Leaders program.
LEVL is a five-month program focused on providing people with lived experience in food/housing/healthcare insecurity the opportunity to explore new skills, share their stories, learn about advocacy, and build an intentional community. LEVL strives to empower people who are the true experts on the challenges Missoulians face to feel empowered to use their voices to create meaningful change.

LEVL will meet Wednesdays starting 9/3/25 until 1/28/26 from 11am-1pm at Missoula Food Bank & Community Center.

Free lunch will be provided at each meeting and if possible, we can support with childcare. $100 monthly stipends will be provided for attendance as well.

Applications are available at Missoula Food Bank or at the link here: https://missoulafoodbank.org/community-center/levl

Apply by August 25th to be a part of this empowering community.

If you are interested in supporting this program but do not wish to apply, or if you are thinking about applying and would like to check out a past project, please check out the podcast "LEVL With Us", created by last year's LEVL cohort! You can listen for free on Spotify (via your web browser here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3uicxkCKZXswJJX5AoVkvT or by using the Spotify app on your phone.) In this podcast, LEVL participants share stories and experiences with housing, their relationship with food, motherhood, living with invisible needs, and the mental load. By listening to other people's stories, we can gain new perspectives and grow in our compassion, empathy, and understanding...or maybe feel not so alone. Huge shoutout to our 2024/2025 LEVL cohort for sharing their stories and experiences.

08/12/2025

Registration is live! Thank you for all of your support. Monday night is already full.

Interested? please sign up sooner than later.

If on the fence in general or about a certain class please reach out.

I’m happy to answer any questions.

www.marinazaleski.com

08/07/2025

I am grateful to announce fall registration will soon be open to the public.

Here's a blog post from last year describing the series and sliding scale model I use for running our classes. Why do I say our ? because without you I wouldn't be teaching. It requires an interested and invested community to run our group classes.

When I returned to teaching public classes in Spring of 2022 after COVID and the closing of The Yoga Fitness Center, I chose a different model to offer classes quarterly sessions that hover the seasons averaging 14-16 weeks. You can count on me to provide consistent classes that meet you exactly whe

08/05/2025

I attended this training a few years ago. Highly recommend.

Join our Project Tomorrow Montana for a free, virtual training - you can help save a life. Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/1377508460060916/1377508476727581

07/28/2025

The wheels are turning!

Registration for our Fall Series 2025 is opening soon!

Receive the latest announcements through our newsletter - 🩵🦋 sign up here :

https://www.marinazaleski.com/pages/newsletter-mz

05/31/2025

Starting this Monday — our 👏 Living Well workshop 👏!

Designed for anyone with any disability, Living Well focuses on building skills for independent living — from budget-setting and finding support to healthy eating and finding your voice as an advocate.

Summit staff will host fun, interactive classes at BASE — our all-abilities activity center downtown — every Monday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Classes run for 10 weeks from June 2 through August 11.

Living Well is our most popular class, and space is very limited, so sign up now! Just DM us, call 406 728-1630, or email tmartinosky@summitic.org.

05/31/2025

We meet online weekly.

https://www.marinazaleski.com/offerings/yoga-for-relief-from-chronic-pain

Emotional well-being. Fall prevention. Chair yoga has a lot to offer people of all ages. As older adults have become more active, chair yoga has grown in popularity.

05/06/2025

I’m so glad to have naturopaths on my care team. It started back in my mid-20s when I had a run of ear infections that didn’t respond to conventional treatment. When I’d ask why it was happening the response was simply “it just does”. That just didn’t sit well and I pursued something different. I’m happy to report I never had another ear infection. Yay!